The most important search engines are:
- Google – The most significant search engine, which realises more than 25 million queries each day. Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Siergiej Brin, in June 2000 had a database of 560 million pages.
- Yahoo! – The most famous web portal in the world, created as web directory, then he changed as crawler-search engine. Currently Yahoo! uses data covered by Bing.
- Overture – Overture was the first search engine which introduced the Pay Per Click method, currently replaced in Europe by Yahoo! Search Marketing.
- Ask Jeeves/Teoma – Search engine which has the ability to answer questions in natural language. The results include sponsored links and Google Ads (Google AdWords) paid links.
- Bing (formerly MSN) – The official Microsoft search engine.
- Alta Vista – Search engine created by Digital. Alta Vista gets sponsored links from Overture and the results from own catalog from LookSmart.
- AOL – links provided by Google Ads (Google AdWords). AOL is mainly based on Google results.
- Lycos – web directory whcih is managed by Open Directory Project, Overture sponsored links.
- Facebook Search uses the Bing’s engine, Microsoft’s search engine uses Facebook’s likes to show additional information in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP).
- Search Alliance Yahoo! and Microsoft. Yahoo! technology was tranferred in the US an Canada for Microsoft platforms.
- Yandex. Russian search engine that is able to read pages from Facebook.
- Ask.com. The famous search engine, which, however lost its importance. It’s owned by IAC and is preferred on the web, but there is no chance in fight with against competitors.
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The article „The Global Search Engines” was developed by Adam Stopa based on sources:
- „SEO & SEM” – Marco Maltraversi.
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